I never met Aaron Swartz, though I certainly knew of him. I’ve been teaching library school students about him since his 2011 arrest for sneaking into an MIT server closet to mass-download the contents of JSTOR. I learned of his death by his own hand via airport wireless, early on the morning of Saturday, January 12. Exhausted by a week of teaching a data-curation bootcamp for librarians and digital humanists, the most I could muster was a weak, aghast “aigh. no.”
The Opportune Moment: Why and How To Leverage Unexpected Events | Peer to Peer Review
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Many JSTOR Journal Archives Now Free to Public
By on January 9, 2013 23 Comments
The archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited free reading by the public, JSTOR announced today. Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to three articles for free every two weeks. This is a major expansion of the Register & Read program.
JSTOR Launches Register and Read
By on March 6, 2012
Not-for-profit digital archive JSTOR debuted its new Register and Read experimental program on March 5. Still in beta testing, Register and Read is one of several initiatives designed to extend JSTOR access to those not affiliated with participating institutions. The program is free to use, though PDF versions of some articles are also available for [...]
Inside the Shadow Factory | Peer to Peer Review
By on July 28, 2011
Photo by Debora Miller When Aaron Swartz, an open information activist, was indicted by federal prosecutors for downloading as much of JSTOR as he could using a laptop computer wired into MIT’s servers (and of course without authorization from JSTOR or MIT), people’s responses stake out the extreme opposites of approaches to accessing research in [...]
